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"The Widow's Lament in Springtime" is a poem by William Carlos Williams about a widow mourning the loss of her husband. It was published in 1921. Williams was largely noted for his importance in the Modernism and Imagism movements. He sought to...

Robert Beatty is a prolific American novelist. Although Willa of the Wood is his fourth book - and the first in the eponymous Willa - it is without a doubt his most well-known work. A fantasy novel, Willa of the Wood tells the story of the young...

The Last Wild, the first book in author Piers Torday's trilogy entitled The Last Wild, tells the story of Kester Jaynes, a young boy who lives in a world where nearly every animal is extinct because of the so-called Red Eye virus. Kester has been...

Vanishing Girls is the first book in author Lisa Regan's "Detective Josie Quinn" series. This iteration follows Detective Quinn as she searches for Isabelle Coleman, a beautiful young blonde girl who suddenly goes missing one day. As she searches...

Cross Her Heart is the initial offering in what has come to be identified as the Bree Taggert series of novels by author Melinda Leigh. By the time the novel was originally published in March 2020, Leigh had already produced a number of volumes in...

"Little Red Cap" is a poem by Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, originally published in her 1999 collection The World's Wife. The poem describes a young girl's romance with a menacing wolf, who seduces her by appealing to her love of poetry. Based on...

"This Is Just to Say," first published in 1934, is a poem by American author William Carlos Williams about a man who has eaten someone else's plums. Williams was a major poet commonly noted for his involvement with the Imagism and Modernism...

“In Mrs Tilscher’s Class” is a poem written in the second-person voice, describing a student's nostalgic memory of a beloved teacher. It is the second poem in Carol Ann Duffy’s 1990 collection The Other Country. In the poem, an adult speaker...

"The Red Wheelbarrow" is a poem by William Carlos Williams that uses a uniquely contemplative voice to depict a wheelbarrow. It was published in 1923 as part of his collection, Spring and All. Williams was a significant twentieth-century American...

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits is Laila Lalami’s first novel, published in 2005.

Lalami had immigrated from Morocco and was working as a conceptual linguist in Los Angeles. She was “always hungry for news about Morocco,” and one day read about...

"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is a poem by American writer William Carlos Williams about the Pieter Bruegel the Elder painting of the same name. It was published in 1960 in the Hudson Review and subsequently collected in Williams's final...

A. S. Byatt's "The Thing in the Forest" is a short story about two girls who leave London to escape Nazi bombings only to encounter a miserable, worm-like creature in a rural English forest. Decades later, the women have difficulty processing the...

"This Is My Letter to the World" is a poem by American poet Emily Dickinson, dealing with themes of isolation, nature, and social judgment. It was written in 1862 and published in 1890. Dickinson's poetry was not widely known during her lifetime....

John Donne was an English poet, scholar, who later in life became a part of the Church of England. “Death’s Duell” represents his final sermon at the St Paul’s Cathedral, soon after which he died.

The contents of the sermon are related to life and...

"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" is a highly acclaimed essay written by Laura Mulvey in 1973, originally published in the renowned British film theory journal Screen. To date, the essay can be found in many other collections and anthologies,...

The Bonesetter’s Daughter is a historical fiction by American author Amy Tan. Published in 2001 by Random House, Inc., the novel is her fourth novel and contains similar themes as the previous works. Akin to The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s...

"The Buck in the Snow" is a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay describing the death of a male deer in the woods. The poem was first published in 1928 in the collection The Buck in the Snow.

In the work, an unidentified speaker describes seeing two...

"Through the Tunnel" is a short story by British-Zimbabwean writer Doris Lessing. Originally published in The New Yorker magazine in August of 1955, it would be republished two years later in a highly-regarded collection of Lessing's short fiction...

"As imperceptibly as Grief" is a poem by Emily Dickinson about the end of summer, the subtlety of the passage of time, and the loss that these changes create. It was written in 1865 and published in 1891. The poem deals with many of Dickinson's...

Shaun Tan's The Arrival is a wordless graphic novel about a man who immigrates to a foreign land to establish a better life for his family. The book's photo-realistic illustrations depict an invented world that blends the familiar with the...

"A Bird, came down the Walk" is a poem by Emily Dickinson, in which the speaker carefully observes a crow as it eats, drinks, and then flies away when she offers a crumb. It was written in 1862 and first published in 1891 as part of the second...

Since 1961, Margaret Atwood has published 18 novels, 18 poetry books, and 9 collections of her short fiction, as well as many other works. In 2000, Atwood won the Booker Prize for her tenth novel, The Blind Assassin, and followed this up with Oryx...

Frederick Douglass was a former slave who escaped slavery in Maryland and ultimately became the leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York. He gave incisive speeches that quickly gained both attention and notoriety, and he...

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes marks the first entry in the Hunger Games series in nearly a decade. It is a prequel to the first Hunger Games novel and tells the story of the 10th Hunger Games. The plot follows Coriolanus Snow (who would later...